This section of the information center deals with the tasks you perform to install CICS and CICSPlex SM, and to migrate to this release from CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Release 1.3.
The installation section includes pre-installation tasks, and the various post-installation tasks leading to the installation verification procedures. It is intended for experienced MVS system programmers responsible for installing and customizing CICS. It describes:
The migration section identifies those things that are new, changed, or made obsolete for this release. It deals particularly with actions that you may need to take, because of changes to CICS, in order to migrate from the previous release. It is intended to help anyone responsible for planning the migration to organize the work that needs to be done. It is not intended for those users for whom CICS TS 2.1 is their first CICS system. It does not cover migration from versions of CICS prior to CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Release 1.3.
If you are skipping one or more releases, you also need to read the Release Guide and the Migration Guide for the intervening releases.
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